Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Gerhard Richter's War Cut art book, 2004

First edition of the art book War Cut, 2004, 25.5 cm x 21.8 cm, signed by the artist in pen. Hardcover in red linen cover, with black printed title on cover and spine, without wrapper as issued. 340 pages, 216 illustrations depicting details from Abstract Painting [CR: 648-2], 1987, 155 texts taken from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 20 and 21, 2003, index of printed texts, and some notes by Gerhard Richter. First edition. Piece 144/ 150
Publisher: Walter Kónig, Cologne

The art book "War Cut" is Gerhard Richter's most important work with a historical and political context. This conceptually designed book combines newspaper articles published at the beginning of the Iraq war on March 20 and 21, 2003 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung with detailed photographs that Richter himself took from his oil painting "Abstraktes Bild Nr. 648-2" a year earlier, in 1987. The collected texts deal with the political, economic, social and cultural implications caused by the outbreak of war. They are combined without commentary into a condensed whole and allow for mutual associations.